251 Quotes by helen fisher

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.